"There’s a country spread out in the sky,
a credulous carpet of rainbows
and crepuscular plants:
I move toward it just a bit haggardly,
trampling a gravedigger’s rubble still moist from the spade
to dream in a bedlam of vegetables."

- Pablo Neruda, Dream Horse

1 year ago 26 notes

"Only do not forget, if I wake up crying
it’s only because in my dream I’m a lost child
hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands."

- Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XXI

1 year ago 654 notes

"Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star,
in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran;
love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes,
two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey."

- Pablo Neruda, Morning XII

1 year ago 40 notes

"Of all fires
love is the only inexhaustible one."

- Pablo Neruda

1 year ago 130 notes

"That’s why I love you and yet not why.
There are so many reasons, and yet so few,
for love has to be so,
involving and general,
particular and terrifying,
joyful and grieving,
flowering like the stars,
and measureless as a kiss."

- Pablo Neruda

1 year ago 405 notes

"Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps."

- Pablo Neruda

1 year ago 106 notes

"Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying…and every day on the balcony of the sea wings open fire is born and everything is blue again like morning."

- Pablo Neruda

1 year ago 66 notes

"Love is the mystery of water and a star"

- Pablo Neruda

1 year ago 30 notes

"Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
Hour that is mine from among them all
Megaphone in which the wind passes singing.
Such a passion of weeping tied to my body."

- Pablo Neruda, Thinking Tangling Shadows

2 years ago 79 notes

"Bring them all
to where I am waiting for you;
we shall always be alone,
we shall always be you and I
alone on earth
to start our life"

- Pablo Neruda, Always

2 years ago 94 notes